A few rays of sunset slanted on the sandy beach, and a few people walked around, holding a dog leash in their hands, and carrying a golden retriever, running along the edge of the waves. There were still some people left, spread out more under the parasols, ready to pack up the deck chairs and go home. Staff in blue uniforms stood with their waists crossed, pinned to the intercom, watching the beach.

Yu Jun took Sun Yuhao's hand and walked on the beach, where the fine sand was soft and suitable, without any garbage impurities. It's not that San Francisco people are environmentally conscious, but that there are a lot of people who want to clean up the beach.

Sun Yuhao is wearing a lilac bikini, with snow-white skin and a flat lower abdomen, which looks extraordinarily enchanting and charming. The wind blew her straight length, revealing a sweet, intoxicating smile.

"I've said hello to the school, and I can go back to my country at any time, and I'll come back when I defend my thesis next year."

Yu Jun stroked a few grains of sea sand on her shoulders for her, and said with a smile: "The start-up capital is ready?" What procedures do you need to go through to open a company, do you want to let Ayu help you? "

Sun Yuhao leaned on his shoulder and said, "Just let her take me there, I don't want to owe her a favor." "

Yu Jun was helpless for a while, even she seemed to be the most open, and she was not at will to get along with Wu Yu peacefully, right?

Holding her shoulders and walking from the beach to the avenue, Zhu Dong threw down the cigarette pressure in his hand and strode over, opened the car for the two of them and said, "Jun Shao, Mr. Yu just called, he has arrived in San Francisco, and now he is driving to the North American headquarters, and Miss Carly is also there." "

"Well, let's go back to the hotel and change our clothes before we go over."

From April 3o to May 1o, there was no news from Apple, but Yu Jun's bad premonition became stronger and stronger, and after thinking about it again and again, he thought that Sun Yuhao would also return to China in mid-May, so he simply went to California, first went to Los Angeles, took Sun Yuhao to San Francisco, and planned to inquire about Apple's plans nearby.

Yu Junhao had to arrange domestic affairs and arrived a day late, but Yu Jun and Sun Yuhao had dinner with Carly and her husband Frank last night, although there were only some small talks at the table, but Yu Jun and Carly's worries undoubtedly affected the atmosphere of the dinner.

Frank didn't want to ask anything, he was the vice president of aTT, responsible for purchasing and sales, and his status in aTT was extremely high, and he and Carly together were a rare BSP in Silicon Valley; aTT, Lucent, HP, and Yundian are all the world's top 5oo companies, and Fiorina's status in the IT industry is not low.

After Yu Jun changed his clothes, Sun Yuhao wanted to surf the Internet in the hotel, Yu Jun wanted to talk about business, and it was inconvenient to take her with him, so he arranged two bodyguards to protect her, pushed the door out, got in the car and went directly to Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley is in San Jose, the third largest city in California, not far from San Francisco, and he came to San Francisco first to discuss with Ellison, but he didn't know that he happened to have something to do in New York, so he had to wait for him to come back.

If you look at California as a country, the largest state in the United States generates the sixth largest GDP in the world, and San Jose, the third largest city, is also extremely important.

But not all of Silicon Valley is in San Jose, including Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda counties.

Yu Jun, who has been to the United States several times, has an experience that the naming of American cities, including counties and towns, mostly follows two principles. One is what is new, such as New Orleans, New South Wales, New York, which are mostly based on the cities in Europe. For example, Orleans and South Wales are British counties, and New York's Turnze should be New York, and Yorkshire is a British city.

And then there is the holy something, most of which have religious significance, and most of them are to commemorate certain saints. Like San Jose, San Francisco, San Luisiana, etc. Basically, they are all personal names, with a holy word, they are all saints in the ** religion.

San Jose is only 64 kilometers away from San Francisco, and the population of the city is less than 1oo, but the security is one of the best cities in the United States, half an hour's drive away, but the commercial operating cost is slightly less than San Francisco, and it is also close to Carly's villa, Yu Juncai put the North American headquarters in San Jose.

Arrive at the North American headquarters, which is 10 stories high but has more than 10 entrances and can accommodate thousands of people at the same time. Yu Jun glanced at the boulder used to make the company's signboard at the door, smiled, and asked Zhu Dong to park the car directly under the office building, and after he went up, he drove to the parking lot.

There are more than 13oo employees here, and in addition to the sales and advertising planning departments, there are also 8oo employees in the research department, mainly engaged in hardware research. After all, the U.S. government is still very wary of Chinese-funded companies, but there is still a need to set up a research team here.

Carly's secretary, Sandra, was waiting for Yu Jun downstairs, and when she saw him, she hurriedly walked up to greet him and led him upstairs.

The first time I came back to the North American headquarters, I still felt very good, due to HP's termination clause, Carly only hung the title of special adviser here, bsp; Sandrola is a middle-aged woman in her 4O, her body has long been out of shape, wearing a white O1 suit, she looks very bloated, but she walks with a tigerish style, and she looks very capable at first glance.

Yu Jun appreciates the Europeans and Americans very much, the secretaries use really practical people, unlike those bosses in China, who can't wait to find someone younger than their daughter, who looks like a fox reincarnated, even if they don't give birth to anything, it will make others misunderstand.

Of course, not every European and American executive is looking for 3O, 4O-year-old, or even 5O-year-old work experience, but in the real 5oo companies, most of the large enterprises are these secretaries.

After all, the work intensity is very high, if you look for those little cuties, do you need to work? Just dry it.

High income and high pay are basically proportional, except for those who don't work according to the normal path.

Sandra didn't have a respectful attitude at all, she didn't even smile, and her face didn't stand up, but it was not flattering, you must know that if this kind of secretary has been with the executives for five or six years, most of them are regarded by the executives as family members, and they will get together for barbecue during the holidays.

Sometimes her status is higher than that of the department heads, and sometimes even Carly can't do anything about her.

Sandra led her to the conference room and stood behind Carly with her notebook in hand.

After Cally smiled and shook hands with Yu Jun, she sat down, Yu Junhao sat on the other side, and there were department executives such as the sales director and planning director of the North American headquarters, most of whom were Americans.

Localization is needed, even when foreign-funded enterprises come to China, most of them use Americans first, then **, Hong Kong, Singaporeans, and finally mainlanders?

If it weren't for the management level of the mainlanders who couldn't keep up, as early as 2o years ago, when they first entered the domestic market, they would have directly used the mainlanders, but now they are slowly starting to switch.

Yu Jun leaned back in his chair and took a sip of water before he said to Carly, "It's been 12 days, what is Apple going to do?" "

"It is expected that after May 13, but within 5 days, a new Apple iPod will be deployed." Carly said, pressing the remote control in her hand, and the analysis report of the North American headquarters immediately appeared on the LCD screen behind her.

Made with ppT, a large number of graphic analysis and text explanations, Yu Jun roughly swept it and said: "Hasn't the Ipod arrived in San Francisco yet?" "

"It takes 16 days to get from Shenzhen to San Francisco, and it should arrive on the 14th." Yu Junhao said, "I really don't understand, why didn't Jobs arrange air transportation?" "

"The cost of air freight is higher, 2oo million yuan, plus packaging, can you fit at least one container, right? Although it is time-saving to use air transportation, it is not necessary. Carly shook her head.

The cost of air freight is not higher, but much higher, UPS is also used alternately by air and sea, according to customer requirements to do, the quotation is naturally different.

Although these small amounts of money are not worth mentioning compared to profits, they can be saved.

"I mentioned to Haitong that those photos of the second generation of Ipod may be fake," Yu Jun took out the PDA in his arms, and showed the photos to Carly, she had already seen them, "These photos are too clear, and there are details in all parts, like Apple, a company with extremely strict technical control, it is impossible to do it, and if you use Lanco's flash memory chip, the thickness cannot be so large, this is an Ipod with 1.8-inch micro hard disk as memory." "

There are two possibilities, one is that the person from the source of the Commercial Investigation Department has a problem, and the other is the news that Apple deliberately released.

Yu Jun never regarded Jobs as a saint, even in his previous life.

Hon Hai's successive jumping incidents are more or less Apple has to bear some responsibility, compressing Hon Hai's profit to 3%, while Apple has a profit of more than 66%, which is unreasonable.

This is no different from the wrap-up work in the old society, but in a more subtle way of doing it.

Behind Apple's glorious corporate image, it's all dirty.

But Americans can't listen to this, as long as Apple is not squeezing Americans, not whites, they are indifferent, and Xiling can't control public opinion in the United States, and Jobs's influence in all aspects is not weaker than Ellison, which makes Yu Jun extremely passive.

The weapon he used to use was taken away, which gave him a lot of headaches.

"For the time being, it is impossible to advance the 4th generation of 1m cloth date, if he is in May, it will be two months, and it is very likely to squeeze the market share of 1m." Carly frowned.

"Well, you can't sell out 2oo Ipod units in two months, alas, but it's hard to say," Yu Jun looked at Yu Junhao, "Is it really impossible to advance?" "

As soon as Yu Junhao wanted to speak, Carly's phone rang, it was a text message.

"The second-generation Ipod will be launched on May 15."